sigrid source is a great grandfather's diary. and this was fun and it was the very exciting for me to see how every day stories were documented i could dive into a world of a hundred years ago and see what happened day by day. at this my great grandfather was brave enough to write critically despite the censorship and put his feelings on paper out. my car i was a half i was a farmer he had a wife and children. august the twenty first nine hundred fifteen. heavy shelling and shrapnel fire chunks of rock often fly through the air terrible screaming after the second shell the wounded and dead are often kept secret. my. it's incredible work to get a cannon like this up the mountain dragging it with ropes to the spot over several days. my under heavy fire for eight hours i thought i'd never get out of it alive. i've. lost reasons against italians imperial rifle regiments against the isle peny but the forces of nature were more dangerous than the enemy avalanches rockfalls in the cold killed more soldiers than enemy gunfire. the winter